Display device



Dec. 4, 1928. 3,693,591

- G. E. CHATILLON DISPLAY DEVICE Filed July 26, 1924 /5 Z 6 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 1928 GEORGE-n: cna'rrrmon, onnn'w YORK, rev, Assienon 'ro Jenn cnn'iinnon & sons;

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This invention relates. to display devices for articles, such as knives, to be convenient; ly exhibited on the counter in cartons, and has for its objectto provide a cardboard device which securely retains the article while covering a minimum thereof so that substantially the entire contour ofthe article will .bedisplayed. Another object is to provide a device capable of receiving articles of dif- 1 ferent shapes and lengths, and provided with a flexible perforation to retain the article without danger of tearing the perforation. A further object is to provide a display box containing said device and shaped to prevent accidental removal of the articles yet capable of having the articles removed from the box without removal of said device, if desired. In particular this invention comprises a cardboard back to which are secured flexible end pieces, the articles tobe displayed extending through the end pieces and yieldably retainedon the back.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a .perspective of the display device holding a few articles and contained within its box. I

Fig. 2 is a section on the line v2 2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a section of a modified form of 39 this invention. 1

Referring to the drawings, the box 10, of V cardboard or other material, is provided with a removable back or bottom portion 12 for receiving the articles 11 to be displayed, which in this case are knives. End pieces 13 and 14 also of cardboard or other material are fastened adjacent the longitudinal edges of the box 12 in some convenient manner, as for example, by means of the staples 15. One end-piece13 is provided with perforations to receive the handle portions, as illustrated, while the opposite end piece 14 is provided with a scored slit 17 easily perforated to receive the blades. As shown in Fig. 1, these scored portions comprise a'line joining two small circles 16 and sufliciently scored so that the blade may be easily pushed through to perforate the line or slit The small cir cles 16 at each end of each scoring or slit 17 thick blade or other object is inserted. These small circles also enable the sides of the slit ticle. With a knife ins'erted, as shown in prevent the slit 1? from splitting in case a 192,4... Serial Not. rashes Figs. 1 or 2, both end pieces 13 and 14. tend to 3 clamp the article andholdit. in place because each end piece is slightly flexed from its ,normalposition lying flat against the back portion 12. The flexible sides of the slit 17 are especially useful in retaining the article in place. The back portion 12, with the articles attached, may be withdrawn from the box for display on the counter orthe box may be tilted and hold the articles on display. It will be noted that the longitudinal sides of the box are spaced apart only slightly more than the length of the article so that the sides of the box also help retain the article in place and prevent its falling out. In the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 it is necessary to raise the back portion 12 from the bottom of the box in order to withdraw the knife from the end pieces 13 and 1 In Fig. 3 is illustrated another form of in vention in which the end piece 20, retaining the handle of the knife, is long enough to permit it being flexed about the retaining staples as illustrated in Fig. 3 in order to have the knife 19 or other article withdrawn from the display device without removing the back portion 12 from the box. It will be seen from Fig. 3 that the perforation in the end piece 20 is sufiiciently remote from the staple 15 to enable the handle end of the knife to be raised clear of the side of the box 18.

Among the advantages of this invention may be mentioned its convenience for shipment and display, enabling nearly the entire contour of the article to be on display, and hiding only a minimum portion of the article under some overlying portion of either end piece. If desired the sides of the box may be made deeper and a plurality of layers of articles arranged within the box, each layer comprisinga back portion 12 with its respec tive end pieces 13 and 14. Another advantage resides in'the adaptability of this display device to retain articles of different length. Moving the end pieces toward or from. one another by controlling the location of the staples and end pieces brings the gripping portions of the end piece closer together or further away, according to the length of the article used. Another advantage of this invention resides in the gripping of only the end portions of the article whereby it is re tained in position more filmly, there being no long overhanging end port-ion likely to be moved out of position. The articles are adapted to be displayed either within the box orremoved therefrom. A11 especially noteworthy feature is the perforated slit for the blade, which slit has flexible sides to firmly ret ain the blade in position without danger of elongating or splitting the end portion. F lexure of both end pieces, and especially additional fiexure of the sides of the slit 17 contribute to retain the articles firmly in posi- 10 tion.

I claim A display box comprising a removable back portion, yield able and perforated end pleces secured to the face of said back in spaced relation and perforated to provide retaining means for the article to be displayed, one of said end pieces having the distance between its perforation and point of attachment greater than the height of the side of the box whereby the article on display may be removed from the boX without removal of the back or end pieces.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this Qetth day of July, A. D. 1924.

GEORGE E. CHATILLON. 

